From China Law and Society Blog:
As we all know, Chinese court is actually an affiliate of the government because the latter funds the former and this is the case from the central government downward to the bottom local level. Courts have been viewed as an instrument by the government to enforce and implement governmental policies, as has been true from the establishment of the national institutions.
Today the Netease website ran another news of this kind. The intermidiate court of Ningbo city has ruled that Yuyao government, a local government under Ningbo City, had voilated law by forcefully demolishing a resident’s house, overruling the lower court decision.[Full Text]
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